{"id":153740,"date":"2025-09-19T00:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/153740\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T00:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:27:08","slug":"mlb-wild-card-standings-bracket-playoff-picture-al-and-nl-standings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/153740\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB wild card standings, bracket, playoff picture, AL and NL standings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cal Raleigh and Aaron Judge going for history as AL playoff picture continues to form<\/p>\n

USA TODAY Sports’ Gabe Lacques breaks down the storylines to watch in the AL as the MLB seasons winds down.<\/p>\n

Sports Pulse<\/p>\n

With about 10 games remaining in the 2025 Major League Baseball<\/a> season, the pennant races are heating up with several divisions and both wild-card races going down to the wire.<\/p>\n

The red-hot Seattle Mariners<\/a> briefly overtook the Houston Astros<\/a> atop the American League West, with the two teams squaring off in a season-defining series at Daikin Park that begins Friday, Sept. 19.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> try to continue fighting off the San Diego Padres<\/a> for the NL West lead, while a six-game winning streak for the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> may have put the AL East to bed. In the NL wild-card standings, the New York Mets’ eight-game skid<\/a> opened the door for the Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> and San Francisco Giants<\/a> to get back into contention.<\/p>\n

Here’s the latest look at the 2025 MLB playoff picture:<\/p>\n

Entering play Thursday, Sept. 18<\/p>\n

MLB playoff bracket if season ended todayAmerican LeagueByes: Blue Jays, TigersAL wild card seriesMariners at YankeesRed Sox at AstrosNational LeagueByes: Brewers, PhilliesNL wild card seriesMets at DodgersPadres at CubsAL wild card standings<\/p>\n

Top three reach playoffs<\/p>\n

New York Yankees<\/a> (85-67):\u00a0+2 gamesSeattle Mariners (83-69)Boston Red Sox<\/a> (83-69)Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (80-71): 2.5 games backTexas Rangers<\/a>\u00a0(79-74): 4.5 GBKansas City Royals<\/a>\u00a0(76-76): 7 GBNL wild card standings<\/p>\n

Top three reach playoffs<\/p>\n

Chicago Cubs<\/a>\u00a0(88-64): +10 gamesSan Diego Padres (83-69): +5 gamesNew York Mets<\/a>\u00a0(78\u201374)Arizona Diamondbacks (77-76): 1.5 GBCincinnati Reds<\/a>\u00a0(76-76): 2 GBSan Francisco Giants (76-76): 2 GBSt. Louis Cardinals<\/a>\u00a0(74-79): 4.5 GBAL EastToronto Blue Jays (89-63)New York Yankees (85-67): 4 games backBoston Red Sox (83-69): 6 GBAL CentralDetroit Tigers (85-67)Cleveland Guardians (80-71): 4.5 GBKansas City Royals (76-76): 9 GBAL WestHouston Astros (84-69)Seattle Mariners (83-69): 0.5 GBTexas Rangers (79-74): 5 GBNL EastPhiladelphia Phillies (91-62) \u2013 clinched NL East title on Sept. 15NL CentralMilwaukee Brewers (93-59) \u2013 clinched playoff berthChicago Cubs<\/a> (88-64): 5 GB – clinched playoff berthNL WestLos Angeles Dodgers (85-67)San Diego Padres (83-69): 2 GB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cal Raleigh and Aaron Judge going for history as AL playoff picture continues to form USA TODAY Sports’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[3044,5585,485,7676,3307,5597,3333,3959,49,48,6681,508,4850,491,1501,14252,6828,511,7667,7668,25861,1443,1506,7674,3043,487,513,1502,462,1327,1342,47,2349,2034,5268,475,3980,44,1333,2042,7673,1439,7666,477,512,3009,7675,470,7665,457,6367,82,865,6363,1320,3302,507,1335,1505,5841],"class_list":["post-153740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-angeles","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-astros","tag-baseball","tag-blue","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-cubs","tag-diamondbacks","tag-diego","tag-dodgers","tag-francisco","tag-giants","tag-guardians","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-jays","tag-los","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mariners","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-modular","tag-modular-story","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-neutral","tag-new","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-padres","tag-red","tag-san","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-scores","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-sox","tag-sport","tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-statistics","tag-story","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-u0026","tag-yankees","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}